The quilt block was designed and executed by Dr. Nellie Patson, a member of the Moscow Branch AAUW. Dr Patson is a Home Economist with a special interest in embroideries instilled in her by her mother. In addition to her skill in needlework, Dr....

Volunteers of America, Preston & Fehr, Louisville, Kentucky. A churchlike building with a slanted roof and domed windows on the second floor. Stairs lead up to the door. The building included a men's lodge, daytime nursery, emergency kitchen,...

Address: 822 S. Floyd Street in Louisville, Ky. Four-story red brick building at alley. An area comprising five windows and a door has been painted white and is bounded by pilasters and a lintel. Signs reading "Volunteers of America" and "For...

This piece was executed by Abby Block, Highland Park, Illinois, in appreciation of the successful emergency surgery performed on her daughter, Mindy, July, 1976, in Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

Those making this 'Honor Quilt' include: / crocheter - Millie Vaughan: president of Judith Murray League of Akron; past president of Akron and Summit County Federation of Women's Clubs / quilter - Jean Bender: immediate past president of Judith...

Large crowd of men, women, and children on the sidewalk in front of a large brick building with streetcar tracks on the road in front. The street number is 401. The sign above the building's door reads "Volunteers of America. Major W. O. Ulrey."...

This section of the Honor Quilt was designed and created by Eileen Gordon, President of Pioneer Women Cleveland Council. Pioneer Women/Na'amat has 50,000 members located all over the U.S.A., almost 1000 of them in Cleveland.

Portrait of George L. Andrews (1828-1899), a professor, civil engineer, and a soldier in the Union Army of the United States Civil War. He was assigned to organize the African American troops in the Army of the Gulf, forming the Corps d'Afrique. To...

Portrait of Charles Kinnaird Graham (1824-1889), a sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, an attorney, an engineer, and later a brigadier general in the Union Army during the United States Civil War. In March 1865, he was appointed a brevet...

Portrait of Daniel Craig McCallum (1815-1878), a brevet major general of volunteers (1864) in the United States Civil War. He was an architect and engineer from Scotland, who in 1862 he was appointed head of all the military railroads in the United...

Portrait of John Ramsey (1838-1901), who was brevetted Brigadier General, U.S. Volunteers of the Union Army in the United States Civil War in 1864 for "distinguished services in the present campaign before Richmond Virginia." In 1865 he was...

Portrait of Robert Cumming Schenck (1809-1890), who was commissioned Brigadier General of Volunteers in the Union Army of the United States Civil War. He was promoted to major general in 1862. Postwar he was elected to the 38th Congress and served...

Portrait of Henry Washington Benham (1813-1884), a Union general in the United States Civil War. He was appointed engineer of the Department of the Ohio in 1861 and later that same year he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers.

Portrait of Lew Wallace (1827-1905), a lawyer, governor, and Union general in the United States Civil War. He was also an author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. During the war, he was promoted to Brigadier...